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carrot cake cookies · natural dyes · natural food colouring

How to Save A Baking Fail – The Invention of Carrot Cake Cookies

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See this woopie pie looking creation? It was supposed to be a bog standard carrot cake. Honest. It was.  The other week I got a bit carried away while doing the groceries and came home with three types of carrot – violet ones, yellow ones and the normal orange ones. The kids liked the look… Continue reading How to Save A Baking Fail – The Invention of Carrot Cake Cookies

Easter · Easter crafts for kids · Easter eggs · Easter traditions · natural dyes

A few photos of this year’s egg decorating with the kids

Fionnuala Zinnecker14 Comments

Here are a few more details and photos of our preparations for Easter over the last week or so.  These are white eggs, hard boiled and then submerged in IRIS dyes for various lenghts of time. We made the pale green by mixing some of the yellow and blue dyes. The white stars were created… Continue reading A few photos of this year’s egg decorating with the kids